ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,290, issued on April 14, was assigned to Bente Fruelund Sorensen Family Trust (Escondido, Calif.).

"Converting potential energy from a mixture of fluids into electric power" was invented by Jens Ole Sorensen (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) and Jens Erik Sorensen (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for converting potential energy into electric power from a mixture of gases, such as atmospheric air, including a particular lesser-density-gas, such as nitrogen, and a particular larger-density-gas, such as oxygen. The system includes a gas-separator at an upper-elevation; a gas-flow-conduit that has a gas-exit-port...